Business & Pleasure
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Think of Gumby’s Junk as a prog-rock power trio modeled off 2000s art-punk luminaries like Deerhoof and Hella rather than ’70s godfathers such as Yes and Rush. As captured on Business & Pleasure, their head-spinning yet hugely charming 2025 full-length, the band juxtaposes scampering, pointillist riffage with dramatic, harmonized crooning, sometimes sounding like Kate Bush fronting a hybrid of Devo and ’80s King Crimson. From song to song, and moment to moment within a given track, the group — guitarist Jas Stade, bassist Emmalee Johnson-Kao and drummer Eli Streich, each a virtuoso on their own eccentric terms — can sound either zanily demented or eerily composed, making for a listen that’s as unnerving as it is exhilarating.